Romania offers one of Europe's largest pools of software engineering talent, with Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca emerging as vibrant tech hubs. Lower operating costs, a young and digitally fluent population, and improving access to capital make it an attractive base for product development and increasingly for founding new ventures. The directory currently lists 55 organisations across 6 cities.
55 entries.
Deep-tech firm building AI-powered smart glasses that replicate guide-dog function for the visually impaired, using pedestrian autonomous-driving perception and haptic head-steering. Tested with 300+ blind users across ~30 countries.
Eastern Europe's largest AI conference at Radisson Blu Bucharest with 100+ speakers, 59+ international exhibitors, and 81+ workshops; covers AI applications across education, healthcare, legal, urbanism, art, and the future of work.
Technical retrospectives and patterns expert, author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns," who teaches teams how to run effective retrospectives and apply software patterns. She is an announced speaker at Codecamp Cluj-Napoca 2026.
Senior Cloud Engineer at CrowdStrike specialising in scalable cloud infrastructure and security engineering. He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026, where he addresses developers and architects on cloud systems.
Bitdefender is a Bucharest-founded global cybersecurity company providing advanced threat prevention, detection, and response solutions for consumers, enterprises, and managed service providers. Founded in 2001 by Florin Talpes, the company has grown into one of the world's leading cybersecurity vendors, protecting over 500 million systems across 170+ countries with technologies spanning endpoint protection, network security, cloud workload security, and extended detection and response (XDR). Bitdefender's threat research labs are among the most respected in the industry, and the company licenses its detection technology to numerous other security vendors. With over 1,800 employees, Bitdefender is Romania's largest and most globally recognized technology company.
Cybersecurity platform for SMEs offering Stingray (compliance-focused corporate VPN) and Bluefin (threat detection and vulnerability management), targeting ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIS 2 compliance. Raised about EUR 3M.
A week-long fintech, blockchain, and AI gathering across multiple Bucharest venues, positioned as a Central and Eastern Europe fintech hub event with an awards gala. Useful for fintech founders targeting the CEE market and regional investors.
Independent consultant and author of "Microservices in .NET," focused on distributed systems and microservice architecture. He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026, covering microservices and .NET.
The 14th edition, themed on skills in the AI era, bringing together leaders from education, technology, policy, and business. Strong for founders building in edtech, AI, and the future of work within Romania's biggest regional tech hub.
Romanian organiser of the Codecamp conference series, running developer-focused conferences and masterclasses since 2008 across multiple cities including Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iași and Timișoara. Programmes cover software development, software architecture, artificial intelligence and engineering leadership for the local IT community.
Regional Cluj-Napoca edition of the Codecamp conference series, running since 2008, held at the Grand Hotel Italia. A one-day main conference of software-development talks on October 20 is followed by two days of hands-on masterclasses on software architecture and AI, aimed at the local IT community of developers, architects and engineering leads.
Regional Iași edition of the Codecamp conference series, with two days of intensive software-architecture and AI masterclasses on October 27-28 followed by a full conference day of developer-focused talks across multiple stages on October 29. It serves the local tech community of developers, architects and data scientists at the Agora Center in Iași.
Venture Partner at Earlybird focused on Central and Eastern Europe. He co-built the Earlybird Digital East franchise (now Bek Ventures) that produced the UiPath and Trendyol outcomes, and continues to bridge Earlybird with the CEE founder ecosystem.
DefCamp is the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, with hands-on workshops running November 16-18. The 16th edition features world-class keynotes, live hacking competitions in the Hacking Village, and expert panels on AI threats, supply-chain security, and cloud security. It unites security researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts from across the region for networking and knowledge-sharing.
Bucharest-based AI platform that provides a context layer for enterprise software development, generating production-ready applications aligned to a company's existing design systems, architecture standards, and internal documentation. Upgraded EUROCONTROL's legacy software in six weeks instead of six months. Raised $5.5M seed from Begin Capital and Gapminder VC.
Organiser of DevDays, an 'Unstacked Engineering' software conference held in Iași, Romania. The team grew out of the long-running dotnetdays.ro conference and now runs a broader event focused on the real-world practice of modern, polyglot and distributed software engineering, spanning architecture, AI, cloud and DevOps.
DevDays (subtitled 'Unstacked Engineering Conference') is a Romanian software-engineering conference held at the Agora event center in Iași. Evolved from the long-running dotnetdays.ro conference, the 2026 edition runs pre-conference workshops on September 21-22 and a main conference day on September 23, with tracks spanning software development, architecture, AI, cloud infrastructure, DevOps and security.
The 9th Cluj edition at Cluj Innovation Park, expecting 2,500+ developers and 50+ speakers across three stages. A developer-heavy ecosystem and hiring venue in Transylvania's tech capital.
The largest IT conference in Romania, at Romexpo, with 160+ speakers across 14 stages. A major recruiting and ecosystem touchpoint for tech founders hiring or selling dev tooling in Romania.
The largest tech conference in Central & Eastern Europe at Romexpo Pavilion B1, with 14 stages on AI, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, quantum, and dev leadership; 100,000+ developers, tech leaders, and IT decision-makers.
Druid AI is a Bucharest-born conversational AI company building enterprise-grade virtual employees that combine intent-based dialogue, knowledge grounding, and deep integration into business systems of record such as SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and UiPath. The platform is aimed at large organizations that want to stand up internal and external chat- and voice-based assistants without stitching together LLM wrappers, retrieval plumbing, and orchestration logic from scratch, and it competes in the same category as Kore.ai and Cognigy from a Romanian R&D base. Druid has raised over USD 50 million in growth capital led by TCV and is one of the clearest examples of a second-generation Romanian enterprise software company riding the UiPath-trained talent pool into the agentic-AI era. It also illustrates how Bucharest's RPA heritage flows naturally into conversational and agentic automation.
Early Game Ventures is a Bucharest-based venture capital firm that launched its first fund in 2019 focused on Romanian tech startups, achieving a reported 45% IRR on Fund I with 4 exits from 28 portfolio companies including Bunnyshell and Profluo. In April 2024 the firm launched Fund II targeting €60 million to invest in early-stage startups across CEE — primarily Romania (60–70%), with the remainder across Europe — at ticket sizes up to €6 million. Focus sectors include SaaS, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and deep tech.
Data scientist at E.ON Software Development working on data science and machine-learning applications in the energy sector. She is an announced speaker at Codecamp Iași 2026.
Independent solution architect, Microsoft MVP and author of "Azure Infrastructure as Code," specialising in Azure, DevOps and infrastructure automation. He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026.
FintechOS is a Bucharest-founded technology infrastructure company that provides a low-code platform enabling banks, insurers, and financial institutions to rapidly build and launch digital financial products without replacing their legacy core systems. The platform accelerates digital transformation for incumbents by offering pre-built components for lending, onboarding, insurance, and wealth management that can be customized and deployed in weeks rather than months. FintechOS has raised over $60 million from investors including Draper Esprit and Earlybird, and serves financial institutions across Europe and Asia. It is one of Romania's most prominent B2B fintech companies and a key example of how the country's engineering talent is being applied to modernize global financial services infrastructure.
FlowX.ai is a Romanian enterprise software company focused on modernizing legacy systems without forcing large institutions to replace their core infrastructure all at once. Its platform helps banks, insurers, and other complex enterprises build modern digital customer experiences on top of old back-office systems by abstracting integration complexity and accelerating delivery cycles. That makes the company relevant in one of the hardest areas of enterprise transformation: organizations that urgently need better digital products, but cannot afford multi-year core-system replacement programs. FlowX.ai therefore sits in a high-value layer between legacy infrastructure and modern application experience. In the European ecosystem, it demonstrates the depth of engineering talent emerging from Romania in areas that require architectural sophistication, enterprise sales discipline, and credibility with regulated industries. The company is also a useful bridge in the directory between legacy-enterprise modernization and newer fintech infrastructure players, showing how incumbents can adopt faster, more software-native operating models without rebuilding from zero.
Cross-border e-commerce fulfillment network for online retailers, running storage, pick-and-pack, invoicing and courier coordination across a multi-warehouse footprint in 30 countries for next-day delivery.
Romania's largest fintech-focused banking summit at QOSMO Hotel in Brasov, with 30+ debate topics covering payments trends, SME financing, neobanking, and geopolitical impact on banking; 500+ participants and 50+ speakers in 2025.
GapMinder Ventures is a Bucharest-based early-stage VC firm investing in B2B deep tech and SaaS startups from Romania and Southeast Europe, with portfolio companies including Druid.AI, FintechOS, TypingDNA, and Cyscale. Its second fund, GapMinder Fund II, targets €80 million — described as the largest VC fund with a primary Romania focus — and deploys first tickets up to €2.5 million in seed and late-seed stage companies across fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and data analytics. The fund targets founders from Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on .NET MAUI and cross-platform app development. A prolific conference speaker and author, he is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026 on building cross-platform applications.
GoTech World (formerly Internet & Mobile World) is the leading B2B expo-conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at Romexpo's B1 Pavilion in Bucharest. The two-day event spreads 100+ exhibitors and top international and local speakers across multiple stages covering AI, cybersecurity, digital marketing, smart cities, and software development, drawing around 15,000 business professionals. A major selling and networking venue for B2B and enterprise-tech startups.
Romania's flagship technology and startup conference connecting CEE founders with international investors and corporates. Features a startup pitch competition, product workshops, and strong focus on the emerging Central and Eastern European tech ecosystem.
Central and Eastern Europe's digital industry festival covering digital marketing, e-commerce, and content creation. Brings 1,000+ marketing and growth professionals to Bucharest with strong representation from regional tech companies and agencies. Tickets from EUR 100.
The 14th edition of the long-running Cluj-based IT conference at Cluj Innovation Park, covering software engineering, AI, cloud, and enterprise tech. A durable end-of-year ecosystem event for the Transylvanian tech community.
Software development consultant and trainer known as "The Code Whisperer," running Diaspar Software Services and teaching test-driven development, refactoring and evolutionary design. He is an announced speaker at Codecamp Cluj-Napoca 2026.
Software architect and lean/agile consultant, a pioneer of software patterns and organisational patterns, working through Gertrud & Cope. He is an announced speaker at Codecamp Iași 2026.
Integration architect and co-founder of BridgingTheGap, focused on enterprise integration patterns and software architecture. He is an announced speaker at Codecamp Iași 2026.
Enterprise architect and international conference speaker focused on enterprise systems integration and architecture. He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026 addressing architects and engineers.
Software Architect at Systematic and an Oracle ACE Associate with deep expertise in enterprise software and databases. She is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026, presenting on software architecture.
Technical lead and Microsoft MVP focused on software craftsmanship, .NET development and engineering leadership. She is an announced speaker at Codecamp Iași 2026, presenting to developers and architects.
MultiversX, formerly known as Elrond, is a Romanian-founded Layer 1 blockchain platform designed for high throughput, low latency, and low transaction costs through an adaptive state sharding architecture. The network can process over 15,000 transactions per second and supports smart contracts, DeFi applications, NFTs, and the metaverse ecosystem. Founded in 2017 by brothers Beniamin and Lucian Mincu along with Lucian Todea, the company rebranded to MultiversX to reflect its broader vision beyond blockchain infrastructure into metaverse and Web3 applications. MultiversX has built one of the most technically ambitious blockchain platforms to emerge from Europe and anchors Romania's position in the global Web3 ecosystem.
Builds a Rust-based secure operating system and toolchain for safety-critical automotive ECUs, aiming to cut development time while improving memory safety and security for car software.
Founder and majority owner of Superbet (operating as Super), a technology-driven sports-betting and gaming group he started in Romania in 2008 that has since expanded across Europe and into Latin America. He backs Romanian technology and entrepreneurship initiatives through the group and its ventures.
Invoicing, inventory and accounting software for Romanian SMEs with native e-Factura integration; used by 65,000+ businesses issuing millions of invoices monthly. Majority-acquired by Visma.
Monthly fireside-chat series with Bucharest-based and visiting founders, organized as part of the global Startup Grind network. October edition features a larger annual event with multiple speakers, pitch practice, and investor networking. Free to EUR 20.
Software engineering coach at AllPhi who mentors development teams on engineering practices and craftsmanship. He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026, presenting to a developer audience.
Software testing and quality leader, CEO and Head of Test IO, specialising in AI-driven testing, automation and quality engineering. He is an announced speaker at Codecamp Iași 2026.
Romania's premier technology conference in Cluj-Napoca, the country's fastest-growing tech hub. Attracts 1,500+ senior developers, CTOs, and founders for talks on AI, product engineering, and scaling startups. Known for high-quality speakers from companies like Google, Spotify, and Stripe. Tickets EUR 200-400.
Tremend is a software engineering and technology consultancy headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 2005 by Ioan Cocan and Marius Hanganu. It provides custom software development, digital transformation, product engineering and consultancy across industries including finance, banking, telecom, automotive, healthcare and public services. The company was bootstrapped rather than venture-backed and grew to over 650 engineers before Publicis Groupe acquired it in January 2022 to expand the European delivery capabilities of its Publicis Sapient arm.
TypingDNA is a Romanian cybersecurity startup that turns the way you type — your keystroke rhythm, dwell and flight times, and typing cadence — into a behavioral biometric signature that can authenticate users continuously or at login without any additional hardware. The core product, TypingDNA Verify, is used by banks, exchanges, and remote-proctored exam providers as a friction-light second factor or anti-fraud signal, and the company also offers ActiveLock, a desktop app that locks the computer automatically when a different typist takes over the keyboard. Founded in 2016 by Raul Popa, Cristian Tamas, and Adrian Gheara, TypingDNA was backed by Google Ventures (GV) in 2020 in one of the first GV investments into Romania, and remains one of the most technically distinctive Romanian cybersecurity companies — a useful counterpart to Bitdefender's broader endpoint and consumer security presence.
UiPath is the Bucharest-born enterprise automation company that defined the robotic process automation (RPA) category and rode it to one of the largest European software IPOs ever: the company listed on the NYSE (PATH) in 2021 at a roughly USD 35 billion valuation, making co-founder Daniel Dines the first Romanian tech billionaire. Founded in 2005 by Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă as an outsourced desktop-automation shop, the company pivoted in the mid-2010s into selling a platform for orchestrating software robots that mimic human workers against legacy enterprise applications, and used aggressive community-led adoption to become the de facto RPA standard at thousands of Fortune 500s. Post-IPO, UiPath has extended into AI-powered document understanding, process mining (via the 2022 Re:infer acquisition), and — most importantly — agentic automation, a 2024 platform launch that orchestrates LLM-based agents alongside traditional robots inside the same workflow engine. The company is now headquartered in New York but continues to run its largest engineering center out of Bucharest, and it remains the single most influential reference story for Romanian deep-tech.
5th edition of CEE's premier fintech festival at Oradea Fortress with 700+ delegates from 40+ countries; tracks span banking digital transformation, AI roadmap, InsurTech, next-gen payments, digital assets, and sustainable finance.
Underline Ventures is a Romanian venture capital firm launched in 2020 by Bogdan Iordache, focused on pre-seed and seed investments in technology startups across Central and Eastern Europe. The firm invests EUR 100K-500K in software, SaaS, and digital platforms, targeting founders building from Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and the broader CEE region. Underline differentiates through deep local ecosystem knowledge and strong ties to the Romanian tech community, including How to Web, the region's leading tech conference. The firm aims to be the first institutional check for ambitious CEE founders with global ambitions.
Deep-tech B2B data vendor (formerly Soleadify) providing AI-curated firmographic and supplier data via APIs for sourcing, risk, underwriting and market intelligence across tens of millions of companies.
Software architecture author and consultant, known for the O'Reilly books "Learning Domain-Driven Design" and "Balancing Coupling in Software Design." He is an announced speaker at DevDays Iași 2026, presenting on domain-driven design and software coupling.